IP: Short for Internet Protocol, IP is an address of a computer or other network device on a network using IP or TCP/IP.

There are five classes of available IP ranges: Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class E, while only A, B, and C are commonly used. Each class allows for a range of valid IP addresses. Below is a listing of these addresses.

Every IP address is broke down into four sets of octets that break down into binary to represent the actual IP address. The below table is an example of the IP 255.255.255.255.

IP:

255

255

255

255

Binary value:

11111111

11111111

11111111

11111111

Octet value:

8

8

8

8

If we were to break down the IP "166.70.10.23", you would get the below value. In the below table, the first row is the IP address, the second row is the binary values, and the third row shows how the binary value equals the section of the IP address.